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Re: a group challenge

#60033
From: "Horatio"
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:24
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"Dennis M. Hammes" <scrawlmark@arvig.net> wrote in message
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> Maiden of Maddness wrote:
> >
> > uhhh . . . it's only probably the most famous poem of the twentieth
> > century.
> > -H
> >
> > what is?? [you know the most /famous/ poem]?
> > Crystal
>
> The /most/-famous pome is, of course,
>
> "There was a young man from Nantucket..."
>
> but when one considers that the referenced pome won its author the
> Nobel Prize for Poultry, and has had more crit lit written about it
> than any other /single pome/, it certainly bids fair for the
> pejorative asserted of it, above.
>
> Why, good heavens, http://www.scrawlmark.org/eliot.html

interesting.  Mostly in that your take is almost completely different than
mine.  I am going to read the whole thing over a bit later.

-H

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